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A dead giveaway for me is their utter confusion at navigating the streets of Manhattan and how addresses work. I’m not sure why people don’t think to learn this.So, in case someone is new and wants to look like a pro when walking/driving/telling a cab driver how to get somewhere in Manhattan:If the streets are going UP you’re walking north.If the Avenues are going UP you’re walking west.Fifth ave is the dividing line between the east and west sides so if you’re looking for an address you need to know if it’s EAST or WEST because there are likely two of the same number.Even streets are one way running east; odds are the same running west. 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd… and the other well-known numbered streets run both ways.The Avenues start on the east side of the island (see #2) and go: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Lexington, Park, Madison, 5th…There are variations (avenues that are numbered take on names as they head north). Some numbered avenues have nicknames (6th ave = Avenue of the Americas). Then there’s the nightmare of navigating below the grid but mastering the above will help prevent people from spotting a transplant in most of Manhattan.

Are Silver Spring, Bethesda, Rockville, and Frederick (cities in Maryland) part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metro Area?Yes, Silver Spring, Bethesda and Rockville are inner suburbs that are immediately connected with Washington DC.Frederick is to some degree it’s own city, separated from Washington DC by green space, but there are enough people who live in or near Frederick that commute to Washington DC or its suburbs that it is considered part of the ‘outer suburbs’ of DC.The inner suburbs of DC on the Maryland side are most of Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties. (Poolesville and Damascus are the main areas of population in Montgomery County that are not inner suburbs, I’m not as familiar with PG County)Howard County (Columbia and Ellicott City and others) is really between Baltimore and Washington DC with ties to both/neither while southern Baltimore County and northern Anne Arundel County are Baltimore.LaPlata (Charles County) and Lexington Park (St Mary’s County) are like Frederick being outer suburbs of Washington DC, and then Annapolis (mid and southern Anne Arundel County) is its own city (more so then Frederick, LaPlata, and Lexington Park) but also has attachments to Baltimore. Calvert County is all rural (not much there but considered part of the Baltimore area).Eastern Shore (the rest of Maryland on the eastern side of Chesapeake Bay) and Western Maryland (west of Frederick) are just rural, no real attachments to either Washington or Baltimore. Also I’m not as familiar with the Virginia side.The Census Bureau has also designated that the Washington DC and Baltimore areas have commingled enough that they now are a ‘Combined Metro Area’. One interesting item here is that by the Census Bureau’s normal rules it would be the ‘Baltimore - Washington’ area since Baltimore is larger than Washington (950,000 to 650,000 people), but they ended up making an exception in nod to the Washington area being much larger then the Baltimore area (3.5 - 4 million as opposed to 1.5 million) and also with Washington DC have much more political importance on a national (and international!) scale.

Good Neighborhoods,Pine Valley, Somerton, Chestnut Hill, Roxborough, Sun Valley, Fox Chase, Burlholme, Lexington Park, Queen Village, Packer Park, maybe a few others.Bad, the rest of the city